omg!: some picks from interweave crochet magazine's winter 2009 issue

(images via interweave crochet magazine)

shown here are some of the stunning, on point, ridiculously amazing crochet patterns featured in the latest issue (winter 2009) of interweave crochet magazine. i'm absolutely obsessed with that last sweater and it's ginormous, delicious oversized bow. and that ruffled neckwarmer thingy?? holy gods it's fan-freakin'-tastic. *faints*
i saw these photos as previews on their site sometime back in the middle of december (get a gander at these and more here) and was so haunted by them that...i proceeded to jaunt down to my local borders nearly every single day over the holidays, hoping it had arrived (they were slow getting it on to the stands). i can be a tad crazed when i really want something!

now, to find the time to obsessively work on such pieces... hrm!

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the essential art of african textiles: design without end @ the MET

(images via the metropolitan museum of art)

from the "better late than never", "interesting to me because it's african textiles," and "reason # 348467362536 i wish i still lived in NYC" department:
the metropolitan museum of art in new york city has a compelling show on at the moment called the essential art of african textiles: design without end, which is hosted in the museum's arts of africa, oceania, and the americas/ michael c. rockefeller wing. said show runs until april 5, 2009. more select, stunning images from the exhibit can be viewed here.
the exhibition looks at (west) africa's stunning and varied textile traditions, the place of said textiles in the marketplace, and the varying ways that contemporary artists have interpreted and used such textiles in their work.
for those (like me) who aren't able to go see this show in person, you can instead check out the accompanying exhibition catalog. i ordered one for myself...i cannot wait for it to arrive!

(via fibercopia)